Rising on the north side of the city in 1906, Greenwood embodied Black American promise and success.
It was filled with hotels, restaurants, theaters and other small businesses, inspiring the name Black Wall Street. But in 1921, Greenwood was swallowed in flames.
The toll was devastating: as many as 300 dead, 35 blocks burned to the ground and thousands left homeless. The death and destruction crushed what was and what might have been. It wrought deep emotional and economic wounds.